Word of the Day:
sonority
What It Means
The property of being sonorous.
Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
Sonority in Context
“It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.”
Did You Know?
From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.
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